Gran Finale

In the beginning there was nothing

From nothing the everything exploded

Displacement of waves

Navigation, however

Cosmo, aspiration

With wings took ​​the heavens

Pursued the king of stars

Behind, the bread and the circus

And the islanders

Ahead

anthropophagically

The sun swallows him

And, in the end,

Smiling ...

Cantor Convidado/Featuring: Fábio Alves

AK1 - L'Operetta Della Morte

Non soffre! Il mondo è troppo bello!!!

                                                                 

Plastisebus baueris...

Come and SeeAK1

AK1 YouTube Playlist

You do not have Quicktime? Still uses Windows PC? Do not know how to access the SoundCloud? No problem ... we have created a playlist with the new album on our YouTube channel. It's just to click "play".

AK1 on SoundCloud

You do not have Quicktime? Still uses Windows PC? Then access AK1, the new album by HI-BRAZIL on our Soundcloudchannel.

A gift in this Solstice: AK1

The forces of the Solstice can be felt everywhere. The Wheel of the Year has turned once more ... and with that comes the certainty that we are all connected to a Higher Power, called Nature. While we have just channeled for the computer keyboard the second volume of the series The Song of the Spheres, we offer a gift to all our friends and collaborators. The soundtrack of the upcoming book, the continuation of the story: AK1.


Thales, the "bearer of the flame of courage," was only 12 when Bétula, the Lady of Icy Lands, urged him for a mission ... finding and learn to play with a harp made ​​of light, seven musical notes of the Song of the Spheres. A Holy song, capable of arousing men to their dormant state and selfishness and thus rebalance the forces of nature on Earth.


He knows he does not have much time to complete his mission. Hatred spreads around the globe like a virus, bringing all sorts of impure desires.Thales deceiving knows that the humans to spread that hatred is the mission of Kroll, the terrible monster of Silence. Like Thales, Kroll knows that every living being has within himself a musical note which vibrates, sonorous. This note is the sum of the frequency of vibration of all molecules in our bodies. Kroll also knows that all living beings, when their notes join in harmony, they do sound a song that is able to ascend to higher dimensions.Therefore, it is called The Song of the Spheres.



Launched in 2008, the first volume of the book, along with the soundtrack, revealed Thales's desire to fulfill its mission . His strength, courage and determination to face the dangers that challenged him. In AK1, Thales will face the worst enemy with which they could be faced: his own inclination to evil.


Accept this gift ... download the songs, share with your friends and family. The second volume of The Song of the Spheres will be released soon. But if you have not read the first volume, accept our offer as a gift this Solstice. The download, in PDF, is free. And it can be shared with everyone!

Download now the soundtrack for The Song of The Spheres Vol.2

AK1

And here you can download the first volume of

the book

And also of 

 the album 

She will come...

It's Spring. The dry and warm air this Winter gave way to showers of hail covering the ground of the city with a white carpet of ice. After Epilogue announcing last spring, and Prologue, days before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we're very pleased to share with you now, the initial moment of this new season.


Our adventure started four years ago, when the project The Song of the Spheres was born. Also in Spring, details about the story began to show up. And it tells about Thales, a boy who has a mission to find seven very special musical notes, which are hidden in different places on the Planet. With them, he can make the music of the Universe sound on Earth, by adjusting in this way, the natural forces that act upon us.


From the beginning, we knew that support Thales in his journey would not be easy. But our soul seemed prepared for the task. Furthermore, our intention was transformed. And so we begin to create the fantastic world of Bétula, Argon, Melíade and many other magical characters that accompany the boy on his mission.  The story was unfolding in a spontaneous, unplanned way. Then came the first notes on the keyboard ... the first song, the first arrangement ... the voices of the choir ...


As a result we had in 2009 the first volume of the saga, The Bard and the Ice Queen, and 14 songs written and produced for the soundtrack that accompanies the work. The songs are as addenda, appendices that complement the story. It is as if parts of the saga were told without the use of words, using only the physical resources of sound frequencies.


Four summers have passed and today we are completing the writing of the second volume of the story and producing new songs. Much has happened and much is yet to come. Change is inevitable. However, we still believe that there is time to reflect on what remains for the future.

We want the future as envisioned and written by someone in the apocalyptic texts of "sacred" books, where there's no salvation for anything? Or we want the future as well as Thales, giving us to dangerous missions to save life on Earth? How far does our desire for comfort?

Wait! We will soon have big news about this work.


Warmest greetings,



Maurício & André.

The portals between worlds are open. It's time to release Prólogo (Prologue)

Hello, friends!

The portals between worlds are open. It is Samhain night in the Southern Hemisphere, when the veil between the worlds rises to celebrate the death along with our ancestors, reminding us always that it is from death that life comes. And it is Beltane in the northern hemisphere, when the gates are opened to commemorate the union between God and Goddess, male and female, the creation of life in its fullness. 

In festive mood, we present to you the new video from HI-BRAZIL: Prologue. 

For the day comes when the desert sands

shall fill thy holy places

New faiths shall make a mock of all thy

holies, and centurion shall call unto centurion across

thy fortress walls...

(Harmachis)

Synopsis:

In a desert, two friends gather to revere Nature. They scratch symbols on sandy soil and greet the spirits of the place. The landscape is lush, though it seems bleak. Nomads, they know some mysteries about life that there is born and dies every day.

Thousands of miles away, several colleagues gather to explore nature. They draw graphics on work boards and greet the bankers of the site. The atmosphere is stifling, though it seems comfortable. Sedentary, they know many mysteries about the money that there is counted and recounted every day.

Background:

 
Duality. If it could be expressed in one word, that word would be chosen by HI-BRAZIL to set the video for Prologue. Made specially for the release of the second volume of the saga The Song of the Spheres, the music will be part of the soundtrack of the work that is being created by the two artists.

"It may seem paradoxical to choose the word duality to express the prologue of a story," says Maurício Businari. "But it's exactly upon the balance of opposing forces that this work is based." 

When darkness and light are in balance, says Maurício, Nature shows itself creative, inspiring. But when something happens that endangers the harmony between them, the result is chaotic and destructive.

"Imagine you are among friends and is approached by strangers. They force you to drink a strange potion that turns you into a zombie. You then proceeds to do all the wants of strangers, forgetting forever your origins," says Maurício.

"It's like the story of Aladdin," added André Luiz Salibi. "Where the genie is imprisoned in a lamp by a black magician, that casts over him a curse. And he is forced to satisfy the desires of any person to possess it."

According to André, for the ancient people of the desert, the desires are flames that, lit by passions purely selfish, can cause terrible disasters. "In this video, we try to illustrate this issue, using excerpts from old films, produced in the 1950s, that are under Public Domain Licenses. They are interesting pictures, stories that intersect themselves and eventually go parallel, towards an unclear outcome."

Epilogue, the first video released by the duo to announce the second volume of The Song of the Spheres, refers to this outcome. Like Prolog, it can be seen on channel HI-BRAZIL on Youtube:

http://youtube.com/hibrazil




Project The Song of the Spheres

The project The Song of the Spheres was born of the HI-BRAZIL's need to create, through art, a record about the striking changes that are being operated in the terrestrial environment as a result of human selfishness. "And it is also as a survival manual," says Maurice. "A guide, a map to help us in finding the lost child within us."

The book tells the story of Thales, a boy born and raised in a large city on Earth, and his extraordinary adventure around the globe in search of the seven notes of the Song of the Spheres. This song is powerful, it is the union of the vibrations of the atoms of all living beings. And it is this song who keeps life in balance. But men, with their factories and cities, are reducing very quickly the frequency range of this music.

At the request of Bétula, The Lady of The Icy Lands and connoisseur of ancient mysteries, Thales agrees to participate in the long and perilous journey in search of musical notes with which he can make sound again, with a harp whose strings are made of light, the Song of the Spheres .

"The book was born because of that desire that we both had to go around, leaving the past behind, venturing ourselves into risky missions to save the Earth," concludes Andrew.

The saga is divided into two volumes. The first, The Bard and the Queen of Ice, is originally written in Portuguese and is available for download at the duo's site, along with the soundtrack, also created and produced by HI-BRAZIL:

http://homepage.mac.com/hibrazil

The second volume of the series is being produced and will be released in December this year (2010).

The beginning can be the end... it's all a matter of points

Greetings

Hello, friends! What was one, then two and after that, three, became two again. And in its dual expression of Nature! Two lives in cohesion, souls going to the core. "Down the staircase, I found gravity's warmth", says Maurício Businari, from HI-BRAZIL. "It is the kind of thing you discover when you start to dig deep the dry sands of a desert. You can find a skull, a scorpion or even a beautiful and rare flower. If you find the second, you have protein. The third one, connection with Nature and, the first one, a good snare".

Maurício says that this kind of experience is like "those moments when you are in the middle of a fucking nightmare and feels that you are alone, even surrounded by thousands of people, no one will see you or help you, because they can't listen to what you are saying. You just try to shake your arms and hands, scream at them, but their ears just can't receive the frequencies...That's why - maybe - the third vertice of the triangle supposed for an instance to be itself the point in the middle. So this geometric figure has been changed and first of all it assumed a form of a line between two points, but now it is proved to be a circle". 

Greenvange

HI-BRAZIL is now going to re-set their clocks to the moon and is receiving showers of inspirational sonorous and pictorial artistic references. The Brazilian duo is now working on the second book of the saga The Song of the Spheres. "While most of turtles insist to keep their swollen bodies into their shells, a bunch of butterflies fly straight to the light of the sun...In their aerial march, they touch with gentleness the ionosphere around the cities. 

What an harp have in common with the arid scenario of a desert? Thales, our young and courageous hero, is going to discover it. And you will, too, soon. "That's why we are working too in a videoclip for the second soundtrack album, that will be released later this year, altogether with the book", Explains André Luiz Salibi, beginning his speech and conducting this post to its end. "All stories are sectioned by acts, by moments. We released Epílogo first. So we will be - in the next days - ready to release another important part of it".

"In the next days", says André...So, keep tuned! This will be around you soon!

HI-BRAZIL interview on Awakenings Show (Blogtalkradio)

Hello, my friends. We have many news to share with you about HI-BRAZIL projects. One of them is the interview that André and Maurício gave to Michele Meiche's Awakenings Show on Blogtalkradio last month. In the show, they talk about The Song of the Spheres, the epic work that is being produced by the duo, and about the beginning of a collaboration process with Kathleen Casey and Simon Ashaan. Simon Ashaan is an intuitive musician, inventor, producer, and channel from Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud (New Zealand) living with his family in the North Island. Kathleen Casey lives in California, USA, and offers sound experiences, practices and intuitive coaching/counseling as a catalyst and support for your journey to wholeness, happiness and true freedom. We will post more news about this project soon. For now, we're glad to invite you to enjoy the show! :)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/awakenings/2009/11/25/song-of-spheres

Epilogue: collaboration of artists from various countries announces second volume of The Song of the Spheres

New video from HI-BRAZIL counts with the participation of 51 artists from 15 countries

"On a mountain, a strong wind begins to blow, announcing major changes. The body trembles, the mouth opens wide and the words start a panoramic flying over the waters of the unconsciousness. Images appear in heaven, They are spread in shades of white and blue while the message is ongoing. incisor, as an infallible arrow that made its plumb in patches of sun that the darkest clouds let go through ...".

This is the argument of Epilogue, the new HI-BRAZIL video. Produced for the release of the second volume of the saga A Song of the Spheres, the video consists of images from Nature, captured by the trio of artists and collaborators who also use Creative Commons licenses to release their work. The 666 rmx guys, that are helping again HI-BRAZIL staff to bring Epílogo (Epilogue) to you, used images of 51 artists from 15 countries, including Brazil, United States, South Korea, Iceland and Japan.

The second volume of the epic, Urda, the Elder from the Sands of Time, will be launched in 2010. For the soundtrack, there will be new collaborations, which will make Thales's journey in search of the seven notes of the Song of the Spheres even more sensational. May Kroll does not see that ... otherwise, the Earth would be able to resist to his thirst for destruction?

If you have not read or heard The Song of the Spheres, both the book and the full album with the soundtrack are available for download at HI-BRAZIL site. The downloads are free and you can share all files with anyone you want. On the site, you can also print and assemble the album cover, if you desire. Just click on the icons.

Epílogo (Epilogue)

Wind, whirlwind, hurricane
Magma, lava, volcano's ashes
Rain, waterfall, floods
The whole Earth shakes in upheaval

Sugar cane, gold, mining, extraction
Dead forests, drought in whole ground
Will bring forth the nation's hunger
Disintegrating life in profusion

Sound the trumpets of emotion
Fear in sight, do risk your reason
Your way out is to open your heart
Make sound the notes of the song

Words come out of the mouth toward
Mob, uncontrollable confusion
And comes a woman over the dragon
Bringing the freedom in her hands

Below is the list of contributors to the Epilogue, which we appreciate immensely.


Aaron Campbell (USA)

Aaron Tait (USA)

Aaron Kraus (USA)

Langage Andy (USA)

angelicalbite (USA)

Arthur Soares (BRA)

Billy Bob Bain (USA)

Brian Pittman (USA)

Bruce McAdam (ISL)

Chris Flynn (USA)

David Táboas (SPA)

Eric Miraglia (USA)

Fabian Heusser (SWI)

Fredrik Lindström (SWE)
Fraktus (BEL)

Jackson Latka (USA)

Jeff Milner (CAN)

Jeremy Hall (USA)

Jim Weber (USA)

Johnny Ouyang (Taiwan)

John Watson (ENG)

Louis Vest (USA)

Marcus Böckmann (GER)

Matt (ENG)

Mor (ISR)

Neil Wykes (SCO)

Per (Color Line) (USA)

0P_timus (USA)

Pat Joyce (Great Britain)

Patrick徐同学☁ ☀ ☁ (JAP)

Patrick Lewis (USA)

Peter Alfred Hess (USA)

Peter Barvoets (ENG)

pinkishkaty (USA)

R. Jackson (USA)

Robert Stern (USA)

Ryan Glenn (CAN)

Ryan O'Hara (USA)

Ryan Vettese (CAN)

Sacred Destinations (USA)

sageori (KOR)

sfmine79 (TAI)

Cobucci Stefano (ITA)

Tim Reid (USA)

Tor Even Mathisen (NOR)

turbo.beagle (USA)

Tyler Karaszewski (USA)

USFS Region (USA)

Wayne MacPhail (CAN)

yellowcloud (GER)

Zascod (USA)



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Epílogo (Epilogue): The new HI-BRAZIL single will be released in a few days

This picture, by Tor Even Mathiessen, was published under a Creative Commons license

The Earth's climate is changing. Our impact on the environment is indisputable: global warming and global dimming, Codex Alimentarius, genetic manipulation, genocide. Kroll, the terrible monster of silence, will be victorious in his mission to convince humans to silence the Song of the Spheres? To destroy all forms of life on the planet? Thales will be able to find the seven notes of the song? Will he be able to make it sound again, reversing the evil that Kroll spread over this world? Four notes have been found. Other three are still missing. Thales does not think about quitting, but he does not know the adventures that await him in the rescue of the remaining notes will be even more dangerous ...

The second volume of The Song of the Spheres - Urda, the elder from Sands of Time is already being realized by the staff of HI-BRAZIL, as well as the soundtrack. The first part of the epic, The Bard and the Ice Queen is available for download at the site of the trio, who currently works at a special surprise in celebration of the Spring/Autumn Equinox. This is Epílogo (Epilogue), the first single from The Song of the Spheres. The video, with 5 minutes, includes excerpts from films produced by artists around the world, who kindly gave their works to the collective collaboration, under Creative Commons licenses. Stay tuned, because in a few days we will post here on the blog a link to Epílogo (Epilogue).

The bard is born...

According to the old traditions, the bard will always be reborn on Earth when it needs balance. Through music and enchantment, he evokes ancient powers capable of restorig the Nature. Legendary prophecies say that he will reappear in times of big disasters and great confusion. Then, he will count with an harp whose strings are made of light. With this magical instrument, the bard will make sound the Song of the Spheres. At the gleam of the Sun's Summer/Winter Solstice of 2008, the bard had born again. The human kind will have another chance to defend Gaia, the Earth...The Great Mother of us all!

The old ways are returning...

The old ways are returning. The icy southern wind, that blows across the Earth, are bringing the scent of inevitable changes. You can feel it penetrates, through your nose, into the flesh and bones, up to the depths of your blood. The bard was warned. He is awakening to make his harp sound the music capable to enter into the hardened heart of men. Now is Gaea who calls. And he will do anything, to find, set free and make sound the notes of the Song of the Spheres. He knows that this is the only way to prevent Kroll, master of illusion, from leading humankind toward total annihilation. For that the old ways are returning. It's time to get ready ... and open up our hearts for the changes! Soon ... in the next solstice of summer / winter, we'll release the first volume of The Song of the Spheres: The Bard and the Queen of Ice ...

The first volume of the story is going through the last review. The soundtrack, composed by HI-BRAZIL, is already finished. Appearing entirely in the digital environment, the album presents a new interpretation of classic elements, including philharmonic instruments such as strings, winds, horns and percussion, plus a choir of 24 singers, gently mixed with digital samples and electronic beats. The process of mastering took three months to get done. The whole work started at the end of 2005, with the first drafts of the text. The songs were composed from 2006/8. The 14 tracks of the album were chosen, among more than 30. They reveal the emotional tone captured from certain moments of the story. The work is being released under a Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can download, share content and even collaborate with us. If you want to know how, send us an email: hibrazil@mac.com.

The Song of the Spheres

Good morning! Now that a new Spring is coming rainy and freezing here, at South Hemisphere, we have the pleasure to announce HI-BRAZIL is working at a new musical and literary epic, called A Canção das Esferas (Song of the Spheres is the english title suggested...). The first volume of the story will be released soon, and it tells about a boy, a harp, his love for the Earth and his courage to change the world. HI-BRAZIL is finishing the mastering of the first album, that will be released together with the book.

"Andre and I started to write the book and the tunes of the soundtrack about three years ago", explains Mauricio, from HI-BRAZIL. "But in an organic way, you know? Sometimes the story appeared first, sometimes the melodies of the tunes. Like an incredible puzzle of literary phrases and musical notes. And only now we could fix all the pieces of this first volume. And we are preparing the enchantment that will bring this magic to you".

The first volume of this saga - The Bard and the Lady of Ice, features our hero, Thales ,a 12 years old boy, and his mission to find and make sound seven special notes of this ethereal song, that are hidden in seven different places of the planet, protected by seven powerful guardians. This is the only way to stop Kroll, the terrible Monster of Silence, that is convincing humanity, through the art of illusion, that the music of whole Nature must be silenced until the total emptiness. What means the end for all living beings, including humans. For this challenge, he counts with the help of fantastic beings and good new friends, that will teach him about Nature and its mysteries.

"For many centuries we were conditioned to live out of Nature, although we are indissoluble part of it. Thales is an urban boy, like millions of others, that are somewhere, around the globe, living in little apartments, going to school, doing sports, playing guitar... a typical child that you and I were too, in some point of our lives, with all that curiosity, intuition and sincerity. A moment in your life when your neurons can act more on the right side of the brain, giving you a lack of extra creative power...But, with the time, tutored by the modern educational systems, we learnt that we have to stop dreaming, we have to be put in some place that others choose for us, and then work for them and make money to pay taxes. So, I could tell you that I believe humans are forgetting this wonderful capacity of being natural. But, in some way, it's still there inside...like the notes of the Song of the Spheres".

Collaborations

A Canção das Esferas will be released under a Creative Commons license, what means you'll can read, listen, discuss, borough, offer as a gift for your beloved ones, or everything that don't include profit on it. The collaborative spirit surrounds the intention of this piece and the list of collaborators is growing.

Stay tuned! Soon we'll post fresh news about this project.

A happy Spring for the "Southers" and a beautiful Autumn for the "Northers"...